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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Kent County - Property Tax Credit - Commerce Zones"
+description: "Kent County - Property Tax Credit - Commerce Zones"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
+legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 302"
+citation: "Maryland HB 302 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Taxes - Property - Local", "Commerce and Business", "Kent County", "Tax Credits"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jacobs"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-25"
+last_action: "2017-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97409a86-dcfc-4bff-9d13-224708c218a3"
+source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB302&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
+source_hash: "c3372befa16202f192950986507b1bc87004e62c99a6462a99da983d4475a9d7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
+---
+
+# Maryland HB 302 (2017) — Kent County - Property Tax Credit - Commerce Zones
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0302f.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Third Reading — **139–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jacobs — primary (person)
+- Arentz — cosponsor (person)
+- Ghrist — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-25** First Reading Ways and Means `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-01** Hearing 2/16 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-17** Favorable with Amendments Report by Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Favorable with Amendments {515766/1 Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-18** Second Reading Passed with Amendments
+- **2017-03-20** Third Reading Passed (139-0) `passage`
+- **2017-03-20** First Reading Budget and Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-24** Hearing 3/29 at 1:00 p.m.
+- **2017-03-30** Favorable Report by Budget and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-31** Second Reading Passed
+- **2017-04-03** Third Reading Passed (47-0) `passage`
+- **2017-04-04** Returned Passed
+- **2017-04-11** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 125 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97409a86-dcfc-4bff-9d13-224708c218a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).
+